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Kamloops Massage Matters & Lymphedema Clinic
Colette Swain & Karen McLean
Massage matters
It is widely understood that massage therapy decreases stress and helps control pain. Perhaps less known is the effectiveness of massage therapy in treating deeper structures of the body such as ligaments, bones and joints, fascia, blood vessels, organs and other soft tissues of the body. Massage therapy can provide relief for many common conditions.
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THE LYMPHEDEMA CLINIC
The Canadian Lymphedema Framework was officially launched on February 6, 2009 as an academic and patient stakeholder collaboration. The CLF is part of an international initiative to promote research, best practices and lymphedema clinical development worldwide. The CLF offers an educational forum for Canadian patients and health care professionals alike.
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Top 5 Frequently Asked Questions
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acknowledgement of Territory
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The word Kamloops is the English translation of the Shuswap word Tk’emlúps, meaning ‘where the rivers meet,’ and for centuries has been the home of the Tk’emlupsemc, ‘people of the confluence.’
Kamloops Massage Matters is situated on the traditional and unceded territory of Tk'emlups te Secwepemc.
To acknowledge this traditional territory is to recognize its long history since time immemorial.
It is also to acknowledge this territory’s significance and the Indigenous Peoples who lived, and continue to live, upon it – Peoples whose laws, practices and spiritualities are tied to the land and continue to develop in relationship to the territory and its other inhabitants today.